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11-8-2008 Senior Instrumental Conducting Recital Teren M. Shaffer Chapman University

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This Senior Recital is brought to you for free and open access by the Music Performances at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format) by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY Conservatory of Music

presents the

Senior Instrumental Conducting Recital of

TEREN M. SHAFFER

with the Chapman Chamber Orchestra COLLEGE OF PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE MUSIC DANCE

featuring

Michael Blinco, baritone

Daniel Alfred Wachs Music Director & Conductor Chapman Chamber Orchestra

Fall Concert Series Fish Interfaith Center November 8, 2008 • 5:00 PM Welcome Program

Dear Family and Friends,

Welcome to the Chapman Chamber Orchestra's Fall Concert Series of the 2008 - 2009 season.

This recital marks the culmination of my time as an undergraduate at Chapman University. And, thanks to Claude Debussy (1862-1918) the remarkable faculty and administration within the Conservatory of Music, I have been provided with the tools to succeed in the future. Chapman has afforded me many conducting and performance opportunities that I would not have received at a larger institution, and for that I am very grateful. The Conservatory has Preluded 'i./apres-midi d,'un Faune'J not just been a part of my collegiate career; rather, it has truly defined it. I am going to miss my Chapman family as I move on to graduate school, but know that they have helped to provide me with a strong foundation upon which I can continue to build. The mission at Chapman of providing a personalized education has greatly inspired my communication through words and music, allowing me to realize that music not only helps groups of people to be connected but it also enables me to connect with individuals. I am leaving the Conservatory of Music a much better musician, conductor, communicator, and global citizen.

To my mentor and friend Daniel, thank you for your guidance and vision. I have learned a lot more from Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) you than how to wave my arms. You continue to set the bar higher for me, challenge me to become better arr. A. S cboenberg than I used to be, and never cease to inspire my musicality and career goals. Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen To my Mom and Dad, thank you for your endless support. You have taught me what it means to strive for a life of excellence, and I will forever be indebted to you both. I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht

To Brianna, thank you for encouraging me and motivating me. Your love and compassion for others is IL Ging heut Morgen iibers Feld inspirational, and I look forward to sharing the rest of my life with you. III. Ich hab'ein gliihend Messer To my best friend Ryan, thank you for teaching me the essence of what it means to be a friend. IV Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz

Finally, to the all of my family and friends, thank you for being a part of my life and for supporting me tonight. You all mean a great deal to me and have affected me as a person. Michael Blinco, baritone

This concert features the full orchestra in Debussy's evocative Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, senior Michael Blinco as soloist in a rare chamber setting of Mahler's Songs of a Wcryjarer, and the Americana sound of Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite in its original orchestration for 13 instruments. Thank you for joining me at this momentous recital. I hope you enjoy this evening's performance. Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

With Best Wishes, Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 Instruments (Original Version, 1944)

Teren M. Shaffer Conducting Candidate '08 This senior recital is in partial fulfillment of the requirement for a Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance with an emphasis in Instrumental Conducting. Teren Shaffer is a student of Daniel Alfred Wachs. About the Artists Program Notes

TEREN M. SHAFFER, conductor Achille-Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Teren Shaffer began his music studies at age six with piano lessons. Middle school initiated his love of bassoon and saxophone, two instruments he continues to play under the instruction of John Campbell and Preluded "L'cpres-midi d'un Faune" Gary Matsuura. Throughout the course of college, he has also developed a strong interest in conducting, studying with Professor Daniel Alfred Wachs and Joseph Modica. He attended an intensive Conductors Claude Debussy was born in Paris into near poverty. However, his talent as a musician found Institute at the Bard College Conservatory of Music to work with renown conductors including Harold him immediate recognition. He began studying piano at the age of seven and entered into studies Farberman, Apo Hsu, Eduardo Navarro, and Lawrence Golan. In 2008, he studied at the Conductor's at the Paris Conservatory by age eleven. For eleven years, he studied at the Conservatory, where Retreat with Kenneth Kiesler, Andrew George, and David Schiff. he was originally trained to become a conce.rt pianist. After $ning the prestigious Prix de Rome Teren has had the opportunity to conduct members of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in preparation for in 1884, he moved to Rome to study at the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Although his tenure was to an ancillary concert with the Chapman Chamber Orchestra as part of the 2008 American Composers be four years, Debussy only resided two years at the Villa Medici, finding the atmosphere too Festival. Additionally, he will be conducting the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra (OCYSO) at stifling. In 1889, Debussy attended the World's Fair in Paris, where for the first time he heard the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, , during a series of community Indonesian gamelan music. From this point forward, Debussy's music contained the outreach concerts for fifth graders beginning this January. characteristics of gamelan interwoven with his own harmonic structure. As an active freelance musician, Teren has performed with numerous ensembles including the Biola Symphony Orchestra and Capistrano Valley Symphony. He has been a member of groups such as the The Prelude is a realization of a poem of the same name by Stephane Mallarme. The poem is the Irvine Valley College Wind Symphony, Long Beach Community Band, La Primavera, the Los Angeles tale of a Faun who sees exquisite nymphs and naiads in the forest. After growing weary of Youth Symphony, and the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Chapman pursuing them, he is lost in an intoxicating sleep. In his slumber, he dreams of the nymphs and University Professor Emeritus John Koshak and Music Director, Daniel Alfred Wachs. Currently in his naiads and in the dream his desires come to fulfillment. Intended only to capture the eroticism third year with OCYSO, Teren was recently appointed General Manager & Assistant Conductor. He has of the poetry, the piece is not meant to be a literal tone poem. Written early in his career, the toured with OCYSO throughout Europe, and also with the Chapman University Wind Symphony in Prelude is one of the first pieces to include the use of pentatonic and whole-tone scales. The under the direction of Dr. Robert Frelly. Teren also gives private music lessons, works as a Prelude was originally meant to be followed by an Interlude and Final Paraphrase, but these pieces woodwind coach and clinician at various high schools, and maintains involvement with professional where never composed. Despite being part of an unfinished set, the piece encapsulates the organizations such as: the National Association of Music Educators, Conductor's Guild, and League of essence of the poetry. American . Furthermore, he was named the Edgar Sholund Music Scholar in 2007 and is honored to hold the Latham and Watkins Music Scholarship at the Chapman University Conservatory of Music. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) arr. A. Schoenberg Teren's pursuit of excellence reaches outside of music as he maintains membership in honor societies such as Gamma Beta Phi, The Order of Omega, and Mortar Board. Moreover, he serves as President of the Iota Lleder eines Fahrenden Gesellen Epsilon chapter of Delta Tau Delta. He is currently a senior, earning a triple major in Music Education, Bassoon Performance, and Orchestral Conducting with his eyes set on continuing his study of music at the During Mahler's lifetime he was known as a preeminent orchestral and operatic conductor. He graduate, and ultimately doctoral levels. did not compose during the regular seasons of which he performed. Aside from a piano quartet, MICHAEL BLINCO, baritone an early cantata, and a tone poem, Mahler wrote only Symphonies and orchestrated Lied. In 1897, he was offered the conducting position at the Vienna Opera, an 'Imperial' position in the While completing his undergraduate work at the Chapman University Conservatory of Music, baritone Austro-Hungarian Empire. With this position came his conversion from Judaism to Roman Michael Blinco has performed throughout Southern California. A native of San Diego, Mr. Blinco has been Catholicism. After unprecedented anti-Semitic attacks by the press, he resigned from the Vienna featured in performances of Handel's Messiah with the Poway Stake Choir (Church of Jesus Christ of 1 Opera, and moved to the U.S. to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra. Unfortunately Latter-Day Saints) and with the First United Methodist Church in La Jolla. While at Chapman, Mr. Blinco for Mahler, the Americans preferred the conducting styles of Arturo Toscanini, sending Mahler performed the roles of Simone in Gianni S chicchi, Sarastro in Die Zaubeiflote, and was featured as the baritone J soloist with the Chapman University Choir and Chamber Orchestra in their performance of Benjamin back to Paris, where he remained until his death. Britten's Cantata Misericordium at the 2007 ACDA National Convention in Miami, Florida. Upcoming performances include the role of Count Carl Magnus in Chapman's adaptation of Sondheim's A Little Night Schoenberg orchestrated this version of the Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen for his S ociery for Private Music titled "A Weekend in the Country," as well as a performance of Vaughan William's Five Mystical Songs Musical Performances in Vienna. The idea of the S ociery at the turn of the century was to perform this spring. Mr. Blinco is a Vocal Performance Major studying with Carol Neblett. Michael plans to attend complex works to members of the group by some of the most talented young musicians graduate school in pursuit of a Master's degree in vocal performance and literature. Program Notes Chapman Chamber Orchestra in Vienna. The works were sometimes performed twice in a concert to be fully absorbed by the Daniel Alfred Wachs audience. Members of the Sociery ranged from highbrow aristocrats to common folks and reached Music Director & Conductor numbers of more than 400 strong. This piece was orchestrated for a chamber group due to the limited availability of players. Teren M. Shaffer, conducting candidate

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) VIOLIN I FLUTE PERCUSSION Philipp Claucig • Kelsey Steinke • Collin Martin • t I~l'/i Concertmaster Lauren Aghajanian Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 Instruments ~ Lydia Dutciuc Diana Szechs t HARMONIUM Tanya Dorsey Arman Keyvanian (Original Version, 1944) Sonika Ung OBOE Daniel Gibson Morgan Beckett • PIANO Tamer Edlebi Diana Patterson t Born in Brooklyn to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent, Copland is perhaps the last person from VIOLIN II Miwa Sugiyama t whom to expect "American" music. It was not until his mid-30's that he began to write with any Maria Myrick • CLARINET indigenous style. His first venture into an ethnic sound was El Sa!On Mexico, which combined his Daphne Medina Laura Lascoe • HARP personal style, jazz, and Latin American cultural music. After the great success of this piece, Kalena Bovell t Daphne Wagner Briana Spargo • Copland created what we term "American Music," and continued in this way until the late 1940's Winston Lecuesta Keryn Wouden when he began to interest himself in Schoenberg's Twelve-tone System. By the 1950's and 60's he Sarah Becker BASSOON was strongly influenced by Toru Takemitsu, a far cry from the cowboys and open plains that he had Charity Potter • previously composed. Copland was outspoken in the political arena, as he defended the VIOLA Michael Kirkbride STAFF Communist Party U.S.A. in the 1936 presidential election. This later would be the subject of his Jarrett Threadgill • Jennifer Glinzak t, Katie Kroko investigation by the FBI in the 1950's. The musical community was outraged by this speculation HORN Administrative Assistant Jillian Marriage Jacob Vogel • & Head Librarian and held up many of Copland's "American" pieces in defense of the composer. The case was t Courtney Giltz Abraham Brovold Arman Keyvanian, closed without further scrutiny. The majority of Copland's later life was spent conducting his own Elise Portale Rebecca Walsh Operations Manager works at colleges and universities across the country. James Chrislip Steven Sanders & CCO Librarian Jacob Vogel t, Composed between 1943 and 1944 the Ballet for Martha, as it was originally titled, was first CELLO BARITONE CCO, WS, & Chapman performed at the Coolidge Festival in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. by Martha Esther Yim• Michael Blinco t Pride Manager Graham and her company. Due to the limited amount of space in the Library of Congress, the Elizabeth Vysin ballet was scored for 13 instruments. The second version of the ballet, notably the most popular, is Victoria Leach the Appalachian Spring Suite, which consists of a full orchestra but excludes the portions of the ballet Scott Kawai t where the concern is mainly choreographic. Copland later came back to a reworking of the ballet to Marissa Goh! t • Principal write the third version, consisting of the original orchestration and being inherently the same t Sepior BASS musically as the full orchestral Appalachian Spring Suite. The ballet is a story of a Springtime a. Alumni Mark Buchner • § Faculty celebration of American pioneers in the 1800's, after the completion of a Pennsylvania farmhouse. t Kevin Baker 00 Faculty Emeritus Among the central characters who are given their own dances in the ballet are a newlywed couple, a ~ neighbor, a revivalist preacher, and his followers. In 1945, the Ballet for Martha awarded Copland the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

-written by Jennifer Glinz.ak